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Starsky... yeah, that Starsky, is a director now. His wife and daughter die in rapid succession.

In a bid to keep him from spiraling-off into a suicidal depression, a bunch of people go to bat to get him attached to a project.

It's an unusually nice thing for Hollywood to do, and for his part, Starsky views the project as a metaphor for how tragedy (like he was suffering) could be turned into hope. An unusually pure and personal motivation for one to bring to a project.

Prosecutors convinced a federal judge to require a lawyer for Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to testify before the grand jury investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election, a court ruling unsealed on Monday showed.

New York University law professor Stephen Gillers said the judge was persuaded that there was significant evidence Manafort and Gates had duped their lawyer into sending inaccurate letters to Justice about their lobbying efforts and about what emails might exist about the work.

"Essentially, the judge is saying that it is probable or likely that the clients had a criminal or fraudulent purpose in hiring the lawyer, even if (we would hope) the lawyer did not know it," Gillers told POLITICO.

If I understand this, Mueller got a judge to kill attorney/client privilege because the lawyer was used in furtherance of a crime. That's... a new concept to me.